Saturday, April 28, 2018

‘Russia Will Expand Until It Disintegrates,’ Norwegian Anthropologist Says

Paul
Goble

Staunton, April 28 – Erika Fatland,
a Norwegian anthropologist who has gained international attention for her
studies of the impact of wars and violence on people, says on the basis of an
eighth-long-long tour of countries adjoining Russia that “Russia will continue
to expand until it disintegrates.”

Fatland, 35, earlier wrote a study
on the Beslan terrorist attack entitled The
Village of Angels, has a new book out, Sovietistan,
based on her visits to all five of the countries of Central Asia.She is also the author of the highly regarded
study of the terrorist attacks in Norway, The
Year without Summer.